"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 836); standing three-quarter length slightly to left, looking to right, his arm leaning on a high table at right with a letter in his hand, desk behind at left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from Catalogue of engraved British portraits. and Date of publication from death date of printmaker, and place of publication surmised from his place of activity.
"Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in an armchair, directed towards left, head in profile to left, his right elbow on a table covered with a tablecloth bearing coat of arms; his right hand supporting his chin; dressed in ermine-trimmed robes; in the background on the left, partial view of an organ; lettered state, after hair and beard shortened."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of King George III
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Verses etched below image: When the ear heard him, then it blessed him and when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him ... but his name liveth evermore., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To the British nation, this print of the father of his people is most respectually dedicated by Samuel W. Reynolds.
Title and date from item., Below title: In the collection of the Countess of Plymouth, Knole., Date of original painting, Count Ugolino and His Children in the Dungeon: 1770-1773., Represents a story from Dante's Inferno., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published 1834, by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289.
Subject (Topic):
Starvation, Imprisonment, Dungeons, Fathers, and Children
Title from caption below image., Text below title: In His Majesty's collection., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Virgil, 70-19 B.C., Aeneid, Dido.
Publisher:
Published 1835 by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall
"Portrait, three-quarter length, standing in front of a pillar and curtain, facing towards left, holding rolled-up papers in his right hand; after T.C. Thompson; state before changing the words of the lettering."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Viscount Sidmouth, &c. &c. &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Samuel Cousins engraved the plate in conjunction with S.W. Reynolds, as indicated by the altered printmaker's statement on the third state. See Whitman., State from Whitman., Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched above imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Bound in opposite page 588 (leaf numbered '19' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Portrait of Charles Townshend, whole length to the left; standing by a table with papers in his left hand; wearing the robes of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Alternative Title:
Honourable Charles Townshend : Chancellor of the Exchequer
Description:
Title etched below image. and Year of publication follows "London" and precedes publisher's name in imprint.
"Portrait of Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans, after Reynolds (Mannings 1145); standing whole-length to front in landscape, looking to left, wearing hussar's uniform; attendant with horse behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different print after the same painting
Description:
Title etched below image., Year of publication follows "London" and precedes publisher's name in imprint., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 337 (leaf numbered '157' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Hodgson & Graves, 6 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793,
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1873); almost three-quarter length seated to left, looking to front, his right hand resting on papers on the table to left with inkstand and watch, his left arm bent and resting on the chair; wooded landscape through window to left; vignette of the good samaritan in border below image; state after letters shaded and strengthened, and "2nd Fifty." erased."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Whitman., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., Dedication beneath title: Dedicated to Samuel Whitbread Esqr. M.P. by his most obliged and obedient servant, Samuel William Reynolds., and Bound in opposite page 638 (leaf numbered '85' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1, 1803, by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing whole-length to front in woodland, resting her left arm on the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse, head inclined to left, eyes to front, holding mask in her right hand; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched beneath title., "Samuel William Reynolds I issued a series of upwards of 350 small mezzotints after Sir Joshua Reynolds, from Bayswater, in four volumes. The engraved title-page is dated 1820, but many plates were issued a few years later. ... Some of these plates are stated to have been engraved by Samuel Cousins when an apprentice to S.W. Reynolds, according to Algernon Graves in his List of the works of Samuel Cousins (Whitman, p. 147)"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.8282., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 176 (leaf numbered '214' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"Portrait of George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend, half-length, facing the viewer, wearing coat open over cuirass, both hands on his belt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with the word "proof" etched beneath title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., "From a series of 313 small mezzotints after the paintings of Reynolds, produced by S.W. Reynolds in the years between 1820 and 1826 with the aim of forming a complete set of illustrations of all the known works by Reynolds"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1832,1211.20., and Mounted on board to 31 x 25 cm.
